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NME Names the Strokes' Is This It as Album of the Decade

November 17, 2009 8:26 a.m. by Nick Neyland

 

Pitchfork may have usurped everyone with their best-of-the-decade list, but the floodgates are open now and many other publications are printing their nominations. Today (Nov. 17), the NME has produced a list of the albums they consider to be the best of the decade, and there are very few surprises.

 

The paper was one of the earliest champions of The Strokes when they emerged at the beginning of the decade, and Is This It is their predictable number 1 choice. The list is male dominated and indie-centric—Jay Z’s The Blueprint is the first hip-hop album to appear, at No. 22—and you just know they've played it too safe when the most surprising inclusion is provided by Brendan Benson.

 

NME's albums of the decade:

 

 

01. The Strokes – Is This It

02. The Libertines – Up The Bracket

03. Primal Scream – Xtrmntr

04. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

05. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell

06. PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

07. Arcade Fire – Funeral

08. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights

09. The Streets – Original Pirate Material

10. Radiohead – In Rainbows

11. At The Drive In – Relationship Of Command

12. LCD Soundsystem – The Sound Of Silver

13. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away

14. Radiohead – Kid A

15. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf

16. The Streets – A Grand Don't Come For Free

17. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise

18. The White Stripes – Elephant

19. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells

20. Blur – Think Tank

21. The Coral – The Coral

22. Jay-Z – The Blueprint

23. Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future

24. The Libertines – The Libertines

25. The Rapture – Echoes

26. Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner

27. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black

28. Johnny Cash – Man Comes Around

29. Super Furry Animals – Rings Around The World

30. Elbow – Asleep In The Back

31. Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones

33. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

34. Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump

35. Babyshambles – Down In Albion

36. Spirtualized – Let it Come Down

37. The Knife – 'ilent Shout

38. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm

39. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles

40. Ryan Adams – Gold

41. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

42. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

43. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

44. Outkast – Loveboxxx/The Love Below

45. Avalanches – Since I Left You

46. The Delgados – The Great Eastern

47. Brendan Benson – Lapalco

48. The Walkmen – Bows and Arrows

49. Muse – Absolution

50. MIA – Arular

 

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2 Responses

November 18, 2009 at 1:04 p.m.

Wouldn't it suck to find out a few minutes too late that you were at the person's party who generated this list. Jeeze.

December 1, 2009 at 1:46 a.m.

Good list, great choice with Elbow in there.. Muse should have been higher!

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